Nighttime clouds roll in

  
Nighttime clouds roll in:

just above the neighbor’s trees

Orion waiting.

F-1 engine

  

Apollo 8 recovery

  
On this day in 1968, the crew of Apollo 8 splashed down in the Pacific Ocean.  Sketch of the command module being hoisted aboard the USS Yorktown.

Land to air to land

  

There was a telescope beneath the tree but not for her.

  

Huygens’ descent: mountains rise up into the frame

But they never returned.

  

Tomorrow Soyuz launches

  

the novelty wore off

  

Crescent Tethys beneath Saturn’s rings